Correlation of Soil Physiochemical Properties, Microorganism Numbers, and Bacterial Communities Following Unburned and Burned Sugarcane Harvest

Table 1

Soil physiochemical properties after unburned and burned sugarcane harvesting at soil depth 0–30 cm.

Average	Unburned	Burned	F test
Organic matter (%)	1.58 ± 0.12	1.40 ± 0.43	ns
Hydrogen potential	5.54 ± 0.24	4.60 ± 0.21
Total nitrogen (%)	0.02 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.004
Available phosphorus (mg·kg^−1)	33.19 ± 6.57	28.48 ± 7.08	ns
Exchangeable potassium (mg·kg^−1)	61.04 ± 7.24	50.93 ± 0.41	ns
Cation exchange capacity (cmol·kg^−1)	13.50 ± 2.14	10.85 ± 0.002	ns
Moisture content (%)	6.71 ± 0.46	1.42 ± 0.82

Data presented as mean ± standard deviation, n:  3, and , and ns:  not significant.